The Northern Irish private operator opens a private GP clinic to meet the growing need for care in the city centre.
Northern Irish private operator Duality Healthcare is to open a private GP clinic in Belfast to meet the growing need for care in the city centre.
The new 3,000 square foot private clinic will offer GP appointments, scanning, urgent care, minor surgery and ADHD specialisms. It will also create ten new jobs, including GPs, nurses and admin staff.
The clinic, at the former Deloitte office on Bedford Street, is the latest in a number of Duality Healthcare clinics across Northern Ireland. The group says that a further two clinics are expected to open in other parts of Northern Ireland this year, bringing its total number of clinics to seven.
The company currently employs more than 60 people with clinics in Newry, Ballymena, Omagh and Derry in addition to the planned Belfast operation.
Towards the end of last year, Duality Healthcare also announced a partnership with Gordon’s Chemists to bring enhanced virtual and face-to-face GP services to communities across Northern Ireland. It opened a Duality GP clinic in Gordons Chemists on Waterloo Place in Derry/Londonderry at the start of December.
“Duality Healthcare is addressing a genuine and growing challenge within the healthcare system: access to timely, high-quality care delivered in a way that is clinically robust, patient-centred and scalable,” said Duality chief operating officer Sarah Marks.
“Our business is built around clinical leadership, real-world delivery and an understanding of regulatory and operational realities, and we strongly believe that demand for the services we offer from the new Belfast clinic will be extremely strong,” she added.
The firm said that the Belfast clinic required an investment of more than £500,000 and follows £4.5 million in funding that the firm raised in November last year from unnamed investors.
